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A list of odd, interesting, and mildly obsure words:

• Esquivalience - "the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities"
• Defenestration - "the act of throwing someone or something out of a window"
• Quibbling - "to argue about, or say you disapprove of, something that is not important"
• Prepone - "to reschedule to an earlier day or time"
• Klutz - "A uncoordinated or clumsy person"
• Smorgasbord - "A large heterogeneous mixture"
• Sesquipedalia - "A very long word"
• Sarsaparilla - "A soft drink, made from the plant Smilax ornata"
• Saccharine - "A brand of artificial sweetener"
• Hullabaloo
• Luminaries
• Periwinkle
• Hither
• Schadenfreude
• Twilight
• Crepuscular
• Posterity
• Nifty
• Meander - Fun to say
• Pseudoscience
• µ
• Buffon
• Proponent
• Jumble
• Ostensibly
• Blindside
• Pastiche
• Smidgen
• Perusal
• Dawdle
• Arbitrary
• Baffling
• Dispell
• Contrition
• Flak
• Tagmount
• Chastise
• Newfangled
• Holdover
• Sap
• Wack job
• whatchamacallit
• wump
• Shan't
• Sacrebleu
• Oh là là
• Candor
• Syncopation
• Crux
• Pringle
• Eek
• Grotesque
• Shim
• Nudge
• Dubious
• Nigh
• Jinx
• Etymology
• Gallivanting
• Disembodied
• Realpolitik
• Pragmatism
• Whippersnapper
• Rubberization
• Surefire
• Bookish
• Unfounded
• Arduous
• Nucance
• messers
• Tail End
• Y'all
• Ain't
• Hone
• Verbatim
• Grifter
• Melancholy
• Frivolous
• Lovesick
• Deuteragonist
• Solipsistic
• Uncouth
• Vehemently
• Festering
• Wisecrack
• Gullible
• Technicolor
• Digress
• Aprosexia
• Chesterfield
• Transparent
• Translucent
• Opaque
• Pining
• Sappy
• Sap

Odd Idioms and Expressions or List of Common English Idioms:

• No Man is an Island
• Playing Second fiddle
• clean as a whistle
• within an inch of one's life
• close but no cigar
• Slow as molasses
• Throw the book at you
• Crawl through the phone
• Bark up the wrong tree
• Go west young man
• Whatta ya doin' movin' furniture? - Making lots of nose in a room that sound like furniture moving
• There are many ways to skin a cat
• Go Jump in Lake
• The way to man's heart is through his stomach
• Don't count your chickens untill their hatched
• Jump the horse
• The Law of Conservation of Everthing
• best thing money can buy
• The Almighty dollar
• The empire on which the sun never sets
• Roll off the tongue
• Floored
• Going South
• Subtile as a Brick
• Learning it the hard way
• Get off my lawn
• Not in my backyard
• Heavy is the head that wears a/the crown
• Everything in the book
• When pigs fly
• joined at the hip
• Out of the Gate
• This absolute piece of twig and sap
• Level playing field
• Holy Mackerel
• Straight Up
• Cut and dry
• Black and white
• Day and night
• The twlight of [something]
• Raining cats and dogs
• When pigs fly
• That's as large as mackenzie the moose
• Fell off a truck
• Born yesterday
• Just fall off a turnip truck
• Doesn't ring a bell
• wait and see
• out of whack
• if i want your opinion i'll give it to you
• live and let live
• lose your mind
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• Play with fire and you will get burned
• Playing god
• Price to pay
• To die for
• Happy wife, happy life
• Up and adam
• Race to the bottom
• Dumb as a pile of bricks
• Hitting/Running into a brick wall
• Straw that broke the camel's back
• Having eyes bigger than your stomach
• Hell to pay
• When hell freeze over
• Over my dead body
• Pried from my cold, dead hands
• Bite the hand that feeds you
• Correlation does not imply causation
• get burned (by someone)
• music of the spheres
• best things in life are free
• nothing in life is free
• there are two things in life that certin; death and taxes
• why fiuld mecanics
• Wherever the wind takes me
• Got west young man
• far as the east is from the west
• let alone
• throw in the towel
• Lipstick on a pig
• it's not how you fall it's how you get back up
• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
• carved in stone
• the cornerstone
• live and let live
• honest mistake
• 'till i'm blue in the face
• put one's foot down
• High strung
• in your own words
• Up to eleven
• Crake it
• Hit it
• kill two birds with one stone
• Like a sitting duck
• hair of your teath
• skin of your teath
• extending an olive leaf
• to lend a hand
• hold the line
• would not recommend
• catch-22
• circumstances would not permit
• beg to differ
• lo and behold
• sight to behold
• break bread
• Kobayashi Maru
• to fumble in the dark
• knee high to a grasshopper
• in the same vein
• Price you must pay
• Bringing Home the Bacon
• come out on top
• hugs not drugs
• (in) up to (one's) eye(ball)s
• face in the gutter
• bread and circuses
• kick the dog
• off the beaten trail
• blow this popsicle stand
• turning the pressure on
• line they draw
• The devil is in the details
• none the wiser
• from scratch
• Foot in the door
• Never took off
• Do by hand
• spitting truth
• no one would bat an eye
• Blind as a bat
• drew the ire of
• Turning the knife
• See eye to eye
• At the drop of a hat
• caught in the crossfire
• Cutting into the bottom line
• elvis has left the building
• Under the table
• Above board
• let bygones be bygones
• tried and true
• my way or the highway
• the whole enchilada
• have a cow
• Alive and Kicking
• get with the program
• Worth their salt
• money where your mouth is
• hang in front your face
• Ironing out the kinks
• wear out welcome
• keep head above water
• put out to pasture
• writing was on the wall
• even-keeled
• chew on
• aganist the grain
• Tempting Fate
• Hair you can set your watch too
• play stupid games win stupid prizes
• the river of a shadow of doubt
• Bringing Home the Bacon
• a shadow of (a) doubt
• Live wire
• Speak of the devil - This ones neat, because it links a converation to another person, odd, very unique

Intertesting and Notable Candies, Sweats, and Chocolate Bars:

• Fig Newton
• Turkish Delight
• Fry's Chocolate Cream
• Babe Ruth
• Big Turk
• 3 Musketeers
• Bounty
• Skor
• Milky Way
• Mars
• Star Bar
• Coffee Crisp
• Twix
• Neilson Jersey Milk
• Crispy Crunch
• After Eight

Good Dounuts:

• honey cruller
• apple fritter

Interesting and Useful Websites on the Information Superhighway (or series of tubes) "the directory":

Reference:

www.standardebooks.org - A curated archive of well formated classic books and play LINK.

www.wikipedia.org - A high quality online enyclopedia LINK.

www.britannica.com - A slighly poorer quality online enyclopedia LINK.

www.snl.no - A high quality online enyclopedia (Norwegian) LINK.

www.tvtropes.org- A (slighly messy) enyclopedia of (most) literary tropes LINK.

www.pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.go - A chemical enyclopedia LINK.

www.htmlcolorcodes.com - A HTML color code enyclopedia LINK.

www.librivox.org - Free audiobooks LINK.

www.impawards.com - A movie poster archive LINK.

www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook - A wiki of the world by the CIA LINK.

www.dictionary.com - An online Ddctionary LINK.

www.justwatch.comm - A directory of movies across streaming services LINK.

www.merriam-webster.com - Another online dictionary LINK.

www.celestrak.com/software/satellite/sat-trak.php - An artificial satellite trackerLINK.

www.justthedarnrecipe.com - Simple recipesLINK.

www.heraldry-wiki.com - A free online heraldry wikiLINK.

www.etymonline.com - A free online etymology dictionary, LINK.

Free image sources:

www.unsplash.com - A large archive of free images LINK.

www.pexels.com - Another large archive of free images LINK.

www.commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - A slighly disorganized collection of free images LINK.

Dashboards & Live Tracking:

www.stltracker.github.io - A 3D dashboard of all artificial earth satellites LINK.

www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap - A nuclear explosion simulator LINK.

www.santatracker.google.com - Google's Santa Tracker, works only on December 25th LINK.

www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/currentlyinspace.php - Live list of people currently in space LINK.

www.time.gov - Offical US time, good map LINK.

www.noradsanta.org - The orginal santa tracker LINK.

www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home - International Boat Tracker LINK.

www.flightaware.com/live/ - International Airplane and Helicopter Tracker LINK.

www.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi- Look up the 3D orbit of any object in the solar system LINK.

Halley's Comet Makemake Farfarout Eris Eros

www.spacereference.org/ - Space Object Dashboard LINK.

www.stellarium-web.org/ - Live Stargazing Dashboard (really really good) LINK.

www.mcbroken.com/ - Live McD's Icecream machine Dashboard LINK.

Unbiased News Sources:

www.snopes.com - Online Fact Checker LINK.

www.politifact.com - Another Online Fact Checker LINK.

www.apnews.com LINK.

www.reuters.com LINK.

Just Plain Wimsical Sources:

www.staggeringbeauty.com - EPILEPSY WARNING LINK.

www.isitthursday.org - IS IT THURDAY? LINK.

www.thispersondoesnotexist.com - Generate a human face that does not exist! LINK.

www.isitthursday.org - IS IT THURDAY? LINK.

Fonts:

www.fontsquirrel.com LINK.

www.dafont.com LINK.

www.fonts.google.comm LINK.

• https://www.fontshop.com/tryout

Games:

www.freegalaga.com - Play Galaga LINK.

www.decisionproblem.com - Play The Paperclip Game LINK.

www.orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ - Play CookieClicker LINK.

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